Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So ... access to the news is governed by access to money (private property). So I could open a mall in a suburb to Chicago, bar all non-white ethnic groups, and if I had enough sympathetic white customers (who would not let themselves be interviewed outside the mall) then this would be totally legal? Hmmm ... South Africa tried this for quite a while, but it didn't work in the long run. I still say wierd, and wierder for every minute. Daniel On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, B. D. Colen wrote: > Yes, a journalist WOULD have to get permission to interview people in > the mall IF the journalist was challenged by mall employees. Freedom of > the press does not give one the right to break laws; it gives one the > right to publish information one gathers. While police departments, > other local governmental authorities, and Congress, may chose to give > journalists certain privileges or rights, I'm unaware of any immunity > from trespassing laws. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Keith R. > Wessel > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:08 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Inspired but arrested > > > > Let's say the mall in in a posh outer suburb but that there are > > communication lines with the inner-city scum so that they turn up at > > the mall and bother these beautiful people out in the burbs. So the > > owners of the private property start barring certain elements from > > their malls. They hurt the neighborhood, so to say. > > > > Now this would be news. Would the journalist have to go to the PR > > people of the mall and ask their permission to do an article on racial > > > discrimination at the mall? > > Excellent point. It begs the question as to whether we as a society > seek to exclude the undesirables. I think that has been done with some > success in India. We once had a "Great Society" movement in this > country to provide opportunity for the less privileged. > > I am somewhat troubled by the distinction between journalist and > documentarian. Do the wonderful photographs posted today by John > Beeching not provide an historical slice of life which deserves respect > equal to that of the breaking news journalist? > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html